Use Of Tone In Robert Graves 'Naked And The Nude'

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In The Naked and the Nude the author, Robert Graves, utilizes tone very frequently. The reader would see this easily notice when Graves uses tone caused by his bold and brash ways of comparing the Naked and the Nude. Graves also recognizes the difference between the two synonyms by contrasting them with imagery. The two literary devices represent the difference of the Naked and the Nude very well because of how well the reader can understand the author’s intentions by focusing on these two elements. In the first stanza line 2 the author states how lovers “gaze on bodies naked and ablaze” this suggests how lovers see their loved one’s body as being ablaze, or on fire or attractive. This is a positive word in a way that it states how they see

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